Climate Systems

Weather Basics

Grades K-4

• Weather Report Chart
• Weather Observation Journal
• Weather
• Cloud Forecast
• Extreme Weather
• Timeline of Extreme Weather Events: Level I
• Timeline of Extreme Weather Events: Level II
• Clouds as Art: Torn Paper Landscape
• Clouds
• Clouds and Your Imagination
• Make a Snowflake
• Build a Precipitation Guage
• Elders Predict Snow
• Measuring Snowfall
• Snowfall
• Drinkable Snow
• Build a Thermometer
• Oral History
• Temperature
• Measuring Temperature
• Build a Weather Vane: Level I
• Build a Weather Vane: Level II
• Finding Wind Direction
• Wind
• Build an Anemometer
• Measuring Wind Speed
• Traditional Stories about Wind
• Draw a Cross-Section of Earth’s Atmosphere

Grades 5-8

• Weather Timeline
• Weather Observation Journal
• Persistence Forecasting
• Trends Forecasting
• Climatology Forecasting
• Analog Forecasting
• Elder's Weather Forecasting
• Traditional Weather Observations
• Observing the Weather
• Testing Weather Proverbs
• Weather Instruments
• Weather Versus Climate
• Cloud Haiku
• Elders' Cloud Observations
• Cloud Types
• Clouds
• Measuring Humidity
• Humidity and Air Saturation
• Build a Psychrometer
• Finding the Average Temperature
• Temperature
• How Oceans Affect Climate
• Layering the Air
• Long-term Temperature Changes Essay
• Excel Temperature Graphs
• Wind
• The Beaufort Scale: A Local Model
• Name that Wind
• Native Language Ties
• Convection and Wind

Grades 9-12

• GPS Mapping
• Navigational Methods
• Storm Chasers (in development)
• Many Microclimates (in development)
• The Long and the Lat of It
  

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